smokeless powder

English

Noun

smokeless powder (countable and uncountable, plural smokeless powders)

1. An explosive, similar to gunpowder, consisting of nitrocellulose mixed with nitroglycerine or nitroguanidine; it burns with very little smoke.

Translations

explosive

• Finnish: savuton ruuti
• Polish: proch bezdymny m

See also

• ballistite
• black powder
• cordite